Step 4 – Upvotes

You can’t just buy a gig and hope for results because Reddit’s algorithm is sensitive. You need the upvotes within a certain time limit of posting for it to be effective.

That means you have to coordinate with your freelancer when you’re going to publish and upvote. Send them a message and get their Skype contact info so you can chat in real time.

Before you post your link, message your freelancer and make sure they’re available to send their upvotes.

The results?

Epic.

Google+ Growth Hacks For Lots Of Traffic

This one isn’t that exciting, but it’s effective.

I mean, look at how much traffic I’ve driven from Google+ the last 2 months:

Dead network my a**.

More importantly, I’m driving thousands of valuable ranking signals.

Example 1: I had a client who wanted to rank higher in YouTube search. If you know about about video marketing and YouTube marketing, you know that social signals and “engaged” views play a huge role in the ranking algorithm. From one post, I was able to drive 12 +1s, 1 share, 5 comments and over 100 views.

Without any links built at the video, it shot up to #2 in YouTube search for their main keyword.

Example 2: As previously mentioned, I sell white hat SEO and content marketing services to Fortune 500 companies. I put together a technical SEO guide and posted it to SlideShare (a tremendously powerful platform to reach high level executives). I wanted to rank it in organic search for “technical SEO” related keywords so I posted it to Google+. It drove 27 +1s and 30 Shares.

Within just two weeks it punched up to spot 6 in Google for “technical SEO audit”.

Since March, the document has gotten well over 3,000 views.

PS – I have no idea why my SlideShare is in Spanish.

Ok, you get the point. Let me show you exactly how I’m doing it.

Step 1 – Finding relevant Communities

I have a pretty good following on Google+, but I never post to my profile page. I only use Communities. Some of them have over 500,000 people in them – they’re a tremendous resource for driving traffic.

Start by logging into Google+ and navigating to the Communities section.

Then, type in some keywords relevant to the content you plan to post.

For the motorcycle example, I typed in “motorcycle”. For the SEO post, I typed in “SEO”.

Hopefully you’re taking notes – it’s crazy complicated.

Step 2 – Spam Check

Click through on a bunch of them and look around – you want to make sure they’re engaged and spam free.

Look for a moderator’s note and active presence

Check if posts are getting +1s and Shares

Make sure not every post is a link – we want active and engaged communities

Step 3 – Join The Community

Don’t be that jack a** who joins and instantly starts posting links. You’ll get banned immediately.

Instead, just copy and paste this:

Thanks +Moderator for accepting me! My name is [Insert your name] and I’ve been working in [Insert niche] for about 8 years, but I’m always looking to learn from fellow colleagues. Looking forward to contributing!

Step 4 – Post Your Link

Give your intro a few days to settle in. Then, come back with your link ready to dump it.

It’s important that you take the time to write 100 – 150 word intro about the link you’re posting.

Any quality Community will require you do so. Also, it helps drive more engagement on your content.

Step 5 – +1 Everything

This is where the magic happens.

All you have to do is scroll down and +1 past posts – do as many as you can until your hand falls off.

What this does is drive attention back to your profile and your most recent post.

Its basic, but trust me, it works!

Creating A Twitter Army With Spam

This one is devious. Promise you won’t judge me for it, ok?

I started doing it to build natural social signals but it ended up driving quality traffic to my website.

NOTE: I recently stopped using this technique. Not because it doesn’t work, but because I’m working with some large clients who frown upon this behavior (sad face).

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117 Responses

Aamir Khursheed

9.15.2015

I had tried a lot with twitter. I wanted to make my twitter audience very much targeted, but still i could not able to develop big followers base. Hope that helps. By the way I wanted to ask that how would i schedule posts if i run a news blog?

You might want to try my method, it’s blackhat. I buy 10,000 followers and once it reflects on twitter I go to co promote and use these 10,000 followers to co-promote to a targeted audience. On co promote 10,000 followers allow you to share a tweet with someone else who has 10,000 followers and if the tweet is re-tweeted and shared it could possibly reach millions. One of mine was re-tweeted 12 times to an audience of 687,326. The secret sauce of course is to pick one of your post that has the most shares because it will likely give you the best results. I even promoted an affiliate link using this method for a dime sale product and scored big. Give it a try. You can also use co promote the white hat way and build your shares by sharing other peoples content but it could take a while to build your following.

I am having a blog with a low traffic. But the mistake i did is that i didn’t pick a specific niche. Apparently, it looks like everything in the blog will be about technology, but the case is different. I have business, blogging, smartphones, freelancing categories in it. So, the audiences become so broader and the issue is that the business people are not interested in smartphones and smartphone enthusiasts are not interested in business and so on.

Unfortunately sometimes it’s hard not to do this kind of stuff because it can be impactful. To affirm your reddit tips… I’ve posted many things to reddit, without any results. I created a killer video for my business and knew people would like it so I decided to pay someone of fiverr for upvotes on r/videos. Results were 80,000 views and 400 new email optins in 24 hours. I posted the video again a few months later and DIDN’T pay for upvotes and it was a huge flop. Here’s the reddit post I’m referring to that succeeded:

This is the post what I’ve learned from this reddit strategy. It’s never as easy as it sounds to market something on there, you need to put in a substantial amount of time and manpower and sometimes that just isn’t worth the amount of time and money that’s often invested into Reddit marketing campaigns.Thanks for this idea. :)

just a question could you please tell me where did you bought your Reddit account from because I tried your link and tried a Facebook page for that but it was a total scam. could you please provide a link for that service.

Thanks Matthew but that was what exactly what I did and searched for. and the first link is that Scam Facebook page. could you please give me (or send me by Email) the exact URL for that Reddit account service.

I’m sorry to say this but, Ryan, this is the worst article you’ve published. Not the guide itself but the writing style. Unnecessary profanity, insulting “white hat” strategies. Matt himself as the owner of this blog don’t swear on his articles, why would you as a guest poster?

Ryan whatever did you do with your Twitter bot? I’ve been using some bots and scripts with great success on Twitter I have a spam account that has a TF of 46 just from retweeting people and getting natural backlinks on other peoples websites.
Love your work and BTW Stephani says hi ;)

Awesome content and great tips to boot. Will be trying the google plus tip. The social signals seem to be very strong with google plus since they seem to favor their own social media site when ranking. I have posted other site content as a link and within 24 hours have seen that post on page one under the keywords I used…

I think the Reddit work is only worth the effort if you are in a niche that can generate people to click and take action. I have found that most redditors are really not interested in doing anything other than….being on Reddit!

I’ve been following you for a long time & this article is full of awesome legit tips on how to build a twitter following, it’s just kinda hidden in the tricks. It has inspired me to stop settling for the daily grind at the office. I’m a “Grey Hat” kinda gal, I stick with what I find morally acceptable. Spam is annoying, so I’m doing most of this manually to make myself feel better about it. I’ve also rationalized that my content will be higher quality, and therefore hopefully produce higher conversions.

I setup a twitter profile & I’m scheduling a ton of tweets with TweetDeck — thanks for the tip on the tool. I’m thinking 3 – 5 scheduled tweets a day and then I’ll jump in every now and then to post something relevant or chat with people live. How often did you schedule to tweet?

So far I’ve been favoriting tweets manually & following relevant experts & active members of the niche’s community. As I research for my first article I’ll throw in a tweet or two with some relevant hashtags to sort of “pre-sell” the following I’m building on the article I’m working on.

I do affiliate marketing, mostly on Clickbank. I don’t have my own website yet, but I’m building one to post some articles on.

Now I just need to finish writing the articles. I have 10 pretty solid ones in mind, but if you’ve taught me anything it’s that quality is king. I’ve got 8 hours of blood sweat and tears into the first, still only halfway done.

The Google + community route caught my attention. I don’t use Google + at all right now so I had no idea the communities feature even existed. Thanks for all the detailed insights into your strategies!

Unless you’re in SEO Google+ is a waste of time. This is something that’s overlooked in the article. The reason so much traffic came from it for this person is because he’s an SEO guy, and all SEO peeps flocked to Google+ the moment it went live because they thought it was a great way to manipulate search rankings.
Google+ is great for SEO traffic (ie, if you’re writing content about SEO for other people interested in SEO), but nothing else.
Just my opinion.

Thank you for enlightening us on how to do use reddit, google+ and twitter the right way. It is very important that you establish your credibility first to achieve your marketing goals in joining the platform.

Hey Mathew, this is a great article. Thanks for the info. Quick question though, did you use proxys for your twitter accounts. And also, did you make all your twitter accounts follow your main account?

I tried the twitter method. Went to the URL posted in your article. http://bulkaccountsguru.com/buy-twitter-accounts-with-profile/, that page quotes 1,000 verified twitter accounts for $25.00. When you click “order now” all it does is take you to a page with an email address. I emailed that address asking for 1,000 twitter accounts for $25 (as posted on the webpage), and they tell me to send them $40 because the price is now $40 and they just haven’t changed their site yet. At this moment I suggested this was another one of those internet scams that SEOs are always posting on their website without actually doing any due diligence and just telling people that stuff they have never actually tried is the next big thing. But, being that this is M. Woodward I figured I’d pay the $40 anyway because surely M. Woodward doesn’t post complete rubbish on his site and actually does his due diligence when someone guest posts on his site recommending a service to use. Well, surprise…I ordered the 1,000 verified t witter accounts, it turned out to be a complete scam, service was never delivered, and I had to dispute the charges thru paypal to get my money back. Matthew, please remove that completely useless bulkaccountsguru.com link from your site.

I personally have been using Google plus community and have seen great results.

Another thing I do is check out community post with good shares or likes related to my niche.. Add those people in my Google business page circle.. And later share article with them. If circle count is less then 500 then you can email them as notification about your post. So I make sure to maintain counts..

Also my observation says 70% people whom u follow will follow you back.. Be it twitter, Instagram or Google plus.. So surely follow and be helpful contributor and you can gain maximum traffic with these referrals. May be good enough to get atleast in top 2 pages in serp..

Thanks Matt abd Ryan for this article.. Gonna try reddit. Do we have to use different proxy for this tips.

Thank you for this nice article, how to do use Reddit, Google+ and Twitter the right way. It is very important and you established in a very clear way to achieve the marketing goals. I enjoyed your article, I searched for this type of article only to get growth on Twitter, Reddit, and Google+. Definitely I follow this steps for better growth on it. Once again thank you so much!

Hi, mate. Thanks for sharing this very useful information, gonna try it myself soon.
But I have a question of another subject. Can you recommend cheap authors (1$=100 words) but which provide high-quality content. Or where I can find them? Elance/UpWork isn’t an option now.

Would these tactics work for an e-commerce site? We are currently trying to get our rankings up in Google and have started to use all of the social media outlets we can without spamming too much, but we just aren’t getting the results the CEO wants.

I’m going to try the Google+ ideas and maybe the Twitter ideas.. any other ideas that may work for an E-Commerce site? :)

I love your blogs and your style of writing, they are very entertaining and I could spend hours here.. :D

Nice information I would like to share something here. Become a semantic alternative to your competitors
Do you know your competition well on the Internet? This is important. If you do not know against whom you compete, you’ll never be an alternative to them.

Whether you sell products and services, users and your potential customers will look in Internet products or services similar to yours in order to solve a problem.

In many cases, the client performs searches using the phrase “alternative …”. This is where you have to position yourself . Follow these steps:

Draws up a list of your competitors on the Internet.
Create landings pages and posts with your products and services containing the phrase “alternative to [your competitor].”